You can pass various options when connecting to PostgreSQL server with SQLDatabaseMBS or SQLConnectionMBS classes in our MBS Xojo SQL Plugin. This includes several SSL options. If ssl mode is require, the SSL encryption is required. But only if you provide local certificate chain and the mode verify-full, the chain of certificates is validated. So if someone puts in a proxy with their own certificate, your application would not connect.
So here a sample code about how to connect with a client side certificate, a private key and the root certificates to validate against:
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The Mac version of that function is a bit more clever than on Windows as we only capture the scroll wheel events while the mouse is over the right window area. Even works, if the window is background and you scroll with mouse over the window.
Coming soon for next plugin version. If you like to try today, you can email us.
Diese Woche finden drei FileMaker Stammtische statt:
Am 13. Februar 2019 gegen 19 Uhr in den Räumen der "Studiowerk - Musikmanufaktur" in Braunschweig.
Am 14. Februar 2019 gegen 19 Uhr im Ristorante Pizzeria Capri in Neu-Ulm.
Am 14. Februar 2019 gegen 19 Uhr im Restaurant Beaulieu in Bern.
Herzliche Einladung mal vorbei zu schauen, falls ihr in der Nähe seit.
Am Besten für den jeweiligen Stammtisch beim Organisator anmelden, damit die Bescheid wissen, wer kommt. Und die Organisatoren schicken gerne regelmäßig Emails rund um an den nächsten Termin zu erinnern, die Themen bzw. Termin- oder Ortswechsel bekannt zu geben.
While current SQLiteDatabase in Xojo 2018r4 uses SQLite 3.25.3, the old REALSQLdatabase is still version 3.7.14.1, about 6 years older. If you still have code with REALSQLdatabase, please move it to SQLiteDatabase. Or you move to SQLDatabaseMBS, which offers SQLite 3.27.1 currently with the recently added VACUUM INTO command.
Normally you just change the class names from REALSQLdatabase to SQLiteDatabase and RealSQLPreparedStatement to SQLitePreparedStatement. The older class sometimes added ROWID to the select statements to make edit/update/delete methods workable.
A few things SQLiteDatabase got over the six years:
SQLite got a backup API, so you can backup to a new SQLiteDatabase.
SQLite 3.25.0 got window functions
SQLite 3.24.0 got support for PostgreSQL-style UPSERT.
SQLite 3.18.0 got PRAGMA optimize command.
SQLite 3.15.0 got support for row values.
SQLite 3.9.0 got FTS 5 extension
Endless bug fixes including some that could corrupt the database.
Great performance improvements between
Finally a general tip. Please call SQLExecute "PRAGMA cache_size = 20000" early in app start to set a big enough cache size. If the tables or their indexes don't fit in memory, performance suffers.
Today a client had questions on how to get a lot of thumbnails calculated quickly in Xojo. We do have CGImageSourceMBS class to read various image files and use Apple's image decoders with hardware acceleration, but doing one after the other in Xojo for thousands of image files would still take a long time.
To speed things up, we made a few plugin functions to use preemptive threads to create the thumbnails. You run several Xojo threads and in each process image files and call one of the following methods:
CreateThumbnailMT(file as FolderItem, ImageIndex as integer = 0, Options as dictionary = nil) as CGImageMBS
CreateThumbnailMT(data as String, ImageIndex as integer = 0, Options as dictionary = nil) as CGImageMBS
CreateThumbnailMT(data as MemoryBlock, ImageIndex as integer = 0, Options as dictionary = nil) as CGImageMBS
The main work is done on a preemptive thread, so you can get a lot of CPU cores busy if needed. The returned CGImageMBS objects can be converted to Xojo pictures (Picture method), or you get png or jpeg image data with PNGData or JPEGData methods.
You can pass various options via dictionary to select the thumbnail size or decide whether you like to use thumbnails embedded in images.
Coming soon for next 19.1 prerelease. If you like to try earlier, please email us.
PS: We also add GMConvertMBS class to do the similar things cross platform. You can use it to scale down images for thumbnails with preemptive threads.
Please join us 5th to 8th August 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Monkeybread Software has a booth as usual and we'll be there for a whole week.
You can book the conference for 2 days ($999 USD) or 3 days ($1299), but I would suggest to add training day for ($399) and make it a 4 day conference. And if you come from far away, please make sure you have a day before/after to enjoy some extra activity with other attendees, like a visit to a Disney Park.
Hotel room is $189 including resort fee, but plus tax.
For our German speaking clients we have a workshop day:
In Zusammenarbeit mit der DenkForm GmbH bieten wir eine Schulung zum MBS Plugin an. Am 7. März 2019 können Sie in Wiesbaden an einer eintägigen Schulung teilnehmen. Lernen Sie die über 5700 Funktionen einmal näher kennen und wie Sie sie effektiv einsetzen. Sammeln Sie Ideen und verbessern Sie ihre FileMaker Lösungen durch den Einsatz unseres Plugins.
Das Monkeybread Software Plugin für FileMaker stellt eine vielseitige Erweiterung der eigenen Datenbank dar. Der Kurs bietet nicht nur einen tiefgreifenden Überblick in die Benutzung und Entwicklung, sondern bietet auch die Chance das Plugin günstiger zu erstehen.
Einführung in das MBS Plugin
Überblick über die Funktionsbereiche
Neues im MBS Plugin dieses Jahr
Rundgang durch ausgewählte Beispiele
Gemeinsames Implementieren von Plugin Funktionen in eine Datenbank:
Upload/Download mit CURL auf einen HTTP/FTP Server
Ausfüllen eines Formulares auf einer Webseite
Bilder bearbeiten
PDF Verarbeitung
Druckerfunktionen
Adressbuch und Kontakte abfragen bei Mac OS X.
Fragen und Antworten
Die Teilnahme kostet 119 Euro inkl. MWSt. und Verpflegung.
Details und Anmeldung bei der Denkform.
Im Anschluss geht es noch zur Pizzeria zum FileMaker Stammtisch Rhein-Main.
An jedem ersten Donnerstag im Monat findet ab 19 Uhr der FileMaker Stammtisch Rhein-Main statt, zu dem jeder herzlichst eingeladen ist.
Only 20 tickets are left for sale and this may sell out soon.
This conference is organized by Egbert Friedrich and takes place from 6th to 8th June 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
As the conference is in english, this is your chance to meet people from around the world at a conference in Europe. And for a lot of people it's easier to get to Berlin than to cross the atlantic and deal with US immigration officers.
Who
dotfmp is an effort of various leading European FileMaker Developers. It is meant to bring all kinds of higher level developers together to share knowledge, educate and challenge each other. When
dotfmp starts at the 5th June 2019 in the later afternoon with a relaxed "Beer and Sausages" in one of the most famous Berlin Beergarden. The session days itself last from 6th until 8th June with various socializing events in the evenings. Additionally we offer support on 10th June to see more from Berlin and its surroundings. What
dotfmp is a 3 Day-Unconference, Meetup, Hangout or Barcamp. It is an informal and self-organized effort to meet on a personal base. Where
dotfmp takes place in one of the most famous spots in Berlin. The GLS Campus is located in a vibrant area with a very short walking distance to all the famous restaurants. Why
We feel there are far too few possibilities to talk to, learn from, and hangout with fellow developers in a relaxed and informal environment. And we'd like to share work and get feedback from people chewing on similar challenges.
If you like to join the conference and present something, please register soon.
For next plugin prerelease, we add new LinuxIconMBS module to provide a few new functions to query icons.
The Icon function queries the picture for the icon based on a mime type, while SymbolicIcon queries the symbolic icon. The FileIcon function takes a folderitem and queries a picture for the icon. For some files, you can query a thumbnail with FileThumbnail function. You get back a path to the temporary file with the icon, in our case a png file.
Not every project needs the newest and latest version of Xojo. Be sure to keep older versions installed in parallel for your computer.
Here is a list of our special versions kept for various tasks:
Use Xojo 2018 Release 4 for current projects in development.
Use Xojo 2018 Release 2 to build for MacOS 10.9.
Use Xojo 2017 Release 2 if you need a 32-bit IDE on Mac.
Use Xojo 2017 Release 1 to build for MacOS 10.7 or with Linux with GTK2.
Use Xojo 2016 Release 3 to use Windows GDI Graphics
Use Xojo 2016 Release 1 to build for Windows Vista.
Use Xojo 2015 Release 2 to build for Windows XP.
Use Xojo 2013 Release 4 to use QuickTime classes.
Use Xojo 2013 Release 3 to build for MacOS 10.6.
Use Xojo 2011 Release 3 to build for PowerPC Macs.
You can read about removals and deprecations on the Xojo documentation in the Deprecations section. We still have a few clients who want their software to run on older operation systems for various reasons. For example special hardware like PCI cards may not work on the latest Windows version due to missing drivers. So they may want to keep an app with ancient Windows version supported.
To download an older Xojo version, you can log into Xojo website, go to download archives. If you have a current license for Xojo, you can certainly ask them for an older license key if needed.
MBS Xojo Plugins in version 19.0 support all Xojo versions and plugins for older Real Studio are available on request.
For next MBS Xojo Plugins, we'll get a few new SceneKit classes for 3D graphics. This includes primitives like cylinders, spheres, tubes, cones, torus and boxes. You can create them, show them in 3D space, animate and rotate them as needed.
Today I translated an example from Swift to Xojo quickly to solve towers of Hanoi problem:
The new examples will be included with next MBS Plugin version.
The UserNotifications framework has been in iOS since version 10. With MacOS 10.14 Apple added this framework for the Mac, so we have the same classes in iOS and MacOS. With MacOS 10.14 Apple also deprecated NSUserNotification API.
To MBS Plugins, we now add UserNotifications API for MacOS in both our FileMaker and Xojo plugins.
For Xojo the new plugin part UNNotification contains all the classes to wrap the framework. As usually, we make this thread safe for Xojo, manage memory automatically and convert data types for you.
For FileMaker we compile the same code as for iOS for MacOS. Our existing UNNotification functions simply work for MacOS, too. There are a few little differences like location based notifications are not supported and there are no launch images for MacOS. If needed we could add new functions for actions beside just bringing FileMaker to front.
If you like, you can try soon those new functions with the next betas.
martin lewis (Code Signing File…): i have tried code signing… Christian Schmitz… (16 Years Xojo Dev…): Congratulations Markus, y… Christian Schmitz… (CGImageSourceMBS …): Well, this runs within yo… Markus (CGImageSourceMBS …): How does the performance … Markus (16 Years Xojo Dev…): Winners drawn? Mortennn (Notarize apps for…): I’ve create a CLI tool to… Markus (Older Xojo versio…): Thanks for the overview –… Markus (Playing with Scen…): Very nice. I wonder if it… Markus Winter (16 Years Xojo Dev…): xDev is great though imho… Christian Schmitz… (New functions for…): Well, first you can downl…
New in this prerelease of the 19.1 plugins:
New in this prerelease of version 9.1 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
As you may know we already made functions to catch scroll wheel events for FileMaker on Windows and trigger a script to move between records.
Wer nach anderen FileMaker Entwickler sucht, kann sich FileMaker auf der Events Webseite oder auf der FileMaker Magazin Webseite nach Stammtischen suchen.
While current SQLiteDatabase in Xojo 2018r4 uses SQLite 3.25.3, the old REALSQLdatabase is still version 3.7.14.1, about 6 years older. If you still have code with REALSQLdatabase, please move it to SQLiteDatabase. Or you move to SQLDatabaseMBS, which offers SQLite 3.27.1 currently with the recently added VACUUM INTO command.
Today a client had questions on how to get a lot of thumbnails calculated quickly in Xojo. We do have CGImageSourceMBS class to read various image files and use Apple's image decoders with hardware acceleration, but doing one after the other in Xojo for thousands of image files would still take a long time.
For our German speaking clients we have a workshop day:
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Did you sign up for FileMaker Conference dotfmp.berlin 2019? 
Not every project needs the newest and latest version of Xojo. Be sure to keep older versions installed in parallel for your computer.
Am 7. Februar treffen sich interessierte FileMaker Entwickler in Hamburg zum Austausch von Neuigkeiten, Erfahrungen und Tipps & Tricks.
The UserNotifications framework has been in iOS since version 10. With MacOS 10.14 Apple added this framework for the Mac, so we have the same classes in iOS and MacOS. With MacOS 10.14 Apple also deprecated NSUserNotification API.
